Interprofessional teamwork and collaborative practice are emerging as key elements of efficient a...

Rare diseases collectively affect millions of Americans of all ages, but developing drugs and med...

'Improving Health in the Community' explains how population-based performance monitoring programs...

Since about 1980, asthma prevalence and asthma-related hospitalizations and deaths have increased...

Brain disorders--neurological, psychiatric, and developmental--now affect at least 250 million pe...

'If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people cou...

Cardiac arrest can strike a seemingly healthy individual of any age, race, ethnicity, or gender a...

'The NIH contracted with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2012 to conduct a study to assess and...

'On March 1, 2013, the IOM and the NRC convened a 1-day workshop, in Washington, DC ... Leveragin...

Gene transfer research is a rapidly advancing field that involves the introduction of a genetic s...

The academic biomedical research community is a hub of employment, economic productivity, and sci...

Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really nee...

Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children explores...

'Smoking-related diseases kill more Americans than alcohol, illegal drugs, murder and suicide com...

Family violence affects more people than cancer, yet it's an issue that receives far less attenti...

Schools and Health is a readable and well-organized book on comprehensive school health programs ...

Ask for a definition of primary care, and you are likely to hear as many answers as there are hea...

Part of the authoritative series on reference values for nutrient intakes, this new release estab...

Over 3 million U.S. military personnel were sent to Southeast Asia to fight in the Vietnam War. S...

'Occupational health nurses (OHNs) are front-line advocates for preventing illness and injury and...

Investing in the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults

'The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides benefits to disabled adults and children,...

Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the...

'Appendixes B through K are not printed in this book, but can be found on the CD at the back of t...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the signature injuries of the U.S. conflicts in Af...

'From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle can...

Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increa...

From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle cano...

'Many people naturally assume that the claims made for foods and nutritional supplements have the...

Weight Gain During Pregnancy explores relationships between weight gain during prenancy and a var...

'In an era of promising advances in cancer research, there are considerable and even alarming gap...

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Bes...

Reducing the intake of sodium is an important public health goal for Americans. Since the 1970s, ...

Clinical research presents health care providers with information on the natural history and clin...

The scars of war take many forms: the limb lost, the illness brought on by a battlefield exposure...

The third installment in the Pathways to Quality Health Care series, Rewarding Provider Performan...

The Institute of Medicine carried out a study mandated by Congress and sponsored by the Departmen...

The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as 'the conditions in whi...

Every patient is unique, and the evolving field of precision medicine aims to ensure the delivery...

Reliable and valid forensic science analytic techniques are critical to a credible, fair, and evi...

'During the past decade, tremendous growth has occurred in the use of nutrition symbols and ratin...

Readily accessible to any interested reader, this volume offers an analysis of the major issues s...

This guide offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisors in science ...

During the last 40 years, the number of women studying science and engineering (S&E) has increase...

The National School Breakfast Program feeds 10 million children each day, and the National School...

Since the Gulf War ended in 1991, various constituencies, including a significant number of veter...

The Children's Vaccine Initiative is an international endeavor to advance the immunization of chi...

For nearly three decades, methadone hydrochloride has been the primary means of treating opiate a...